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	BBC Radio Leicester
		BBC Radio Leicester is one of my time travel machines.
		Radio Leicester was Britain's first BBC local radio station.
		Local radio was launched and a few weeks later, eight more experimental stations followed Radio Leicester onto the airwaves.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/leicestershire/60465 (604 words)

	BBC Radio Leicester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		BBC Radio Leicester is the BBC Local Radio service for the English counties of Leicestershire and Rutland.
		It broadcasts from its studios in Leicester on 104.9 FM and DAB.
		It was the very first BBC Local Radio station, first broadcasting on 8 November 1967.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/b/bb/bbc_radio_leicester.html (65 words)

	Encyclopedia: BBC Radio Leicester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		BBC Local Radio is the BBCs regional radio service for England and the Channel Islands, consisting of 40 stations.
		Leicester (pronounced) is the largest city in the English East Midlands, on the River Soar.
		It stretches from Leicester in the east to Burton-upon-Trent in the west, and links the ancient forests of Needwood and Charnwood.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/BBC-Radio-Leicester (880 words)

	BBC Local Radio
		BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester - Serving Herefordshire, Worcestershire and the Welsh border.
		BBC Radio Solent - Serving Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
		BBC Radio Suffolk - Serving the East Anglian county of Suffolk.
	www.ability.org.uk /bbc_local_radio.html (336 words)

	Articles - Leicester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In the 9th century, Leicester was captured by the Danes (Vikings) and became one of the five boroughs (fortified towns) of Danelaw, although this position was short lived.
		Leicester played a significant role in the history of England, when in 1265 Simon de Montfort forced King Henry III to hold the first parliament of England at the now-ruined Leicester Castle.
		Leicester is expected by 2012 to become the first major city in Britain in which the ethnic minority population will form a majority.
	www.foreverc.com /articles/Leicester (2203 words)

	BBC Radio Leicester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unlike many other BBC local radio stations, individual programmes are available to listen again on the station's radio player.
		Leicester also has Leicester Sound, with the transmitter in Billesdon, eight miles east of Leicester near the A47.
		In the evening, the East Midlands local radio share the same programme from the Nottingham studios hosted by Rob Underwood from 9pm until 12am.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BBC_Radio_Leicester (323 words)

	TV & Radio Bits - Radioland - The Local Network
		The first BBC radio station for the capital, running from 6 October 1970 until 7 October 1988 when it was replaced by test transmissions for GLR.
		BBC London Live emerged from the South East Review in an attempt to boost audience figures, much to the chagrin of most of its existing listenership who were not impressed by the increase in phone-ins and consumer items, and the loss of many specialist music shows.
		Radio Norfolk was one of the first BBC local stations to be based around a county, rather than a town or city; it was also the first to broadcast in stereo (though only to East Norfolk; the remainder of the county had to wait until 2005 for stereo broadcasts).
	www.tvradiobits.co.uk /radio/bbclocal1.htm (1108 words)

	BBC - Radio Leicester - The History of BBC Radio Leicester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The guests, including the Lord Mayor of Leicester and senior BBC staff from London, were greeted by a protest from members of the Free Radio Association, bemoaning the loss of the pirate stations.
		Radio Leicester's first-ever news bulletin was broadcast next, compiled without any journalists as it was provided by a local news agency.
		Leicester City and Leicester Tigers featured on the station, but the first major challenge were the floods of 1968.
	www30.thdo.bbc.co.uk /england/radioleicester/history/index.shtml (500 words)

	CalendarHome.com - BBC Radio Asian Network - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In 1979, BBC WM, the BBC radio station for the Midlands, followed Leicester's lead and introduced a similar daily show.
		By 1988, plans had been laid for shared South Asian programmes across the Midlands, on the AM frequencies of Radio Leicester and BBC WM, and on 30 October 1988 The Asian Network was launched on BBC WM and BBC Radio Leicester with a combined output of 70 hours per week.
		In January 2006, the BBC announced that they were investing an extra £1m in the BBC Asian Network, and increasing the number of full-time staff by 30% in a bid to make British South Asian interests 'a mainstream part of the corporation's output'.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=BBC_Asian_Network (656 words)

	Asian Sound \| Radio Features
		In 1967, Leicester was the first location in the country to gain its own local radio station, BBC Radio Leicester, which launched on 8 November.
		BBC Radio Leicester, at the time the only local station in the county, saw this potential audience and in 1974 started a weekly programme for Leicester’s Asian Community.
		After the re-awarding of the Leicester ILR licence in April 1984 to the Radio Trent group, the new contractor asked Don and his team to join their station, Leicester Sound, which launched on 7 September 7 1984.
	www.transdiffusion.org /rmc/features/asian.php (1232 words)

	BBC Radio Leicester - radio station in Leicester, Leicestershire United Kingdom covering Leicester general ...
		BBC Radio Leicester is a radio station in Leicester, United Kingdom covering general entertainment.
		BBC Radio Leicester contact information is available only to Mondo Times Advanced and Professional Members.
		BBC Radio Leicester is owned by British Broadcasting Corporation.
	www.mondotimes.com /1/world/uk/154/4251/10450 (111 words)

	UK Radio History 2, Post war BBC & Pirate Radio, Radio Luxembourg
		Radio 247 was to take over the 247m wavelength (1214 KHz) hitherto used by the Light Programme for a small number of 'filler' relay stations for the parts of Britain that could not receive the longwave transmissions from Droitwich adequately.
		Radio Merseyside, the third BBC experimental station with studios in Commerce House in Sir Thomas Street, was the largest and had a 2.5 kW transmitter.
		BBC Radio London had a powerful 50kW transmitter installed, together with a pair of new masts at Brookmans Park using 206 meters (1457 kHz), whereas BBC Radio Birmingham, also using 206 meters, had to make do with a sloping wire aerial lashed on to the Sutton Coldfield television mast fed by a 10 kW transmitter.
	www.arar93.dsl.pipex.com /mds975/Content/ukradio2.html (3445 words)

	From the Leicester City Council News Archive
		"Leicester’s invitation to the Earth Summit is a direct result of the reputation the city has acquired in the ten years since Rio.
		Cllr Willmott will be live on BBC Radio Leicester at 9am on Friday (30th) and then live on www.bbc.co.uk/leicester at 10am.
		More information about Leicester’s commitment to sustainable development can be found on the Earth Summit 2002 page on this website.
	www.leicester.gov.uk /NewsSite/index01.asp?pgid=3728 (478 words)

	Radio Authority receives two applications for Leicester digital multiplex licence
		The Radio Authority's closing date for receipt of applications for the local digital multiplex service licence for the city of Leicester and the surrounding area was today (20 November).
		Digital radio is a new transmission system which provides the listener with bundles (called multiplexes) of audio services to new portable and vehicle receivers, and personal computers, with unprecedentedly clear reception.
		The Radio Authority is responsible for licensing and regulating Independent Radio in accordance with the statutory requirements of the Broadcasting Acts 1990 and 1996.
	www.ofcom.org.uk /static/archive/rau/newsroom/news-release/01/pr165.htm (840 words)

	Aircheck UK
		Now, in 2002, Radio Leicester is neck and neck with the local commercial competition for audience, and is producing a wide variety of interesting and diverse programmes.
		To be called Leicester Sound, this service would have output from Leicester for 12 hours a day on weekdays and 6 hours at weekends, for a period of 1 year, whilst the IBA re-advertised the franchise.
		Later that year, Midlands Radio plc was bought by the GWR Group, who wanted to know what people thought of the station and questionnaires were published in local newspapers.
	www.geocities.com /thehotw/aircheck_UKLeics.htm (5752 words)

	Who's Who (Actors) in Leicester and Leicestershire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Martin's BBC career began in 1983, predominantly at BBC Radio Leicester, He has presented and produced every kind of programme from news and current affairs magazines to a daily phone-in, from light hearted music shows, to a five-hour sports sequence.
		BBC TV presenter and editor Biddy Baxter mainly worked on the long-running children's television the show "Blue Peter." The show started in 1958 and is one of British television's longest running programmes, regularly reaching 5-6 million children and teenagers.
		Leicester actor (born in Leicester) Christopher Wren was the second of three sons of a professional photographer and entertainments manager and his wife, a semi-professional actor, Barbara Cayless.
	www.leicesterandleicestershire.com /Whos_Who6.htm (10339 words)

	Radio - News - BBC awards celebrate 40 years of local radio - Digital Spy
		Radio Five Live presenters Jane Garvey and Simon Mayo, BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze presenter Michael Buerk and journalist Kate Adie are among those co-presenting the awards.
		David Holdsworth, acting controller, BBC English Regions, said: "These awards reflect the rich and varied way that local radio serves local communities across the country, but this year's event will be particularly special as we celebrate 40 years of what Frank Gillard set up as 'the people's radio'."
		The awards themselves are miniature busts of the founder of BBC Local Radio, Frank Gillard, who died in 1998.
	www.digitalspy.co.uk /radio/a44814/bbc-awards-celebrate-40-years-of-local-radio.html (289 words)

	Articles - BBC Local Radio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Radio Leicester was the first to launch on 8 November 1967.
		Radio Solent (Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight) - [20]
		Southern Counties Radio (Surrey, East Sussex and West Sussex) (Previously BBC Radio Brighton and later BBC Radio Sussex) - [22]
	www.techize.com /articles/BBC_Local_Radio (97 words)

	Local Radio Desks - Introduction
		Radio Leicester was the first station to open, on 8th November 1967 on 95.05 MHz.
		BBC Radio Leicester originally occupied the entire eighth floor of Epic House, a ten storey office block above a supermarket at the end of Charles Street where it remained for the next 38 years.
		At the end of the two years the BBC declared the experiment a success and announced that Phase Two of a further 12 stations would be built, this time including Manchester.
	www.btinternet.com /~roger.beckwith/bh/locrad/lr1.htm (545 words)

	Tony Wadsworth
		TONY WADSWORTH Witnessed the birth of BBC local radio in his hometown of Leicester in 1967, freelancing for BBC RADIO LEICESTER.
		In September 1997 he was asked to present the regional late-night programme for the BBC in the Midlands.
		The programme originates from Pebble Mill and is broadcast by BBC RADIOs COVENTRY and WARWICKSHIRE, DERBY, HEREFORD and WORCESTER, LEICESTER, LINCOLNSHIRE, NOTTINGHAM, SHROPSHIRE, STOKE and WM.
	freespace.virgin.net /ken.fox/waddo/tony (331 words)

	THE FANTASY “BBC LOCAL RADIO ON THE INTERNET” SCHEDULE
		Former Brian Hayes stand in on BBC Radio 2 has his consumer programme in Birmingham (in the Mailbox, where you can actually see him broadcasting through the glass), dealing with slightly controversial issues involving the law and all that.
		BBC Radio Merseyside’s flagship “on the air” soapbox, allowing Liverpool folk to air their observations of what’s on their mind, as well as give a piece pf their mind as well.
		When he was at BBC Radio Derby, his “Holmes’ Service” helped me to get a copy of a television programme that was recorded the previous week.
	www.webspawner.com /users/asperger/radio.html (2207 words)

	Leicester Comedy Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Leicester writer Chris Sewart has won the prestigious Writing Comedy for Radio Competition, promoted for the past 9 years by Leicester Comedy Festival.
		The winning entry is scheduled to be broadcast by BBC Radio Leicester as part of the Everybody's Reading Festival, taking place across Leicester from 14th-21st June.
		Each year Leicester Comedy Festival, together with partners Leicester and Leicestershire Literature Development Officers and BBC Radio, invite writers from across the UK to enter the competition.
	www.comedy-festival.co.uk /pages/news_details.php3?id=99 (353 words)

	The Rocker Returns
		In October of ‘77 at my wife’s instigation I wrote to the Station Manager Mr Owen Bentley at BBC Radio Leicester to see if I could promote original Rock n Roll on the Radio, The response was more than I expected, I was asked to do an audition tape.
		BBC Radio Leicester was the very first local Radio station.
		I was not prepared to sell a product I did not believe in but I knew the person who would, and Jay Cooper who had worked for BBC Nottingham in the past was called upon to resurrect an old programme of his “JCs Juke box” the show died within weeks and lasted just 10 months.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /bribop/TRR.html (605 words)

	Leicester Fairtrade
		March by Sandra Herbert on BBC Radio Leicester and one lucky voter will win all top ten fairtrade goodies.
		Radio Leicester’s Martin Ballard will put them through their paces.
		Just, Leicester's own fairtrade shop on Bishop Street,Town Hall Square, is busily selling the broadest fairtrade range from fashion to footballs, coffee to cards.
	www.fountainheadproject.org.uk /html/leicester_fairtrade.html (838 words)

	ukdigitalradio: Local digital radio for Leicester
		Leicester Sound's programme controller, Craig Boddy, said: "With Leicester Sound being an essential part of Leicester's radio diet over the years, it is great news to know that it is also now part of the future with DAB digital radio."
		NOWdigital East Midlands is broadcasting seven digital radio services, including four existing commercial and BBC analogue services and three brand new and diverse digital only services, which offer real choice.
		The new licence will broadcast to a potential audience of 670,000 people and with DAB digital radios becoming more and more accessible, the latest and cheapest digital radio - the Evoke-1 for £99 - is becoming top of the most wanted Christmas lists this year.
	www.ukdigitalradio.com /press/display.asp?id=144 (464 words)

	Katie Skilling - The Official Web Site
		Katie will also be doing some press interviews for local press in the Leicester area including - BBC Radio Leicester (104.9fm) on wednesday 8th december at 3.10pm (tune in!) and also There will be an interview with Leicester Sound (105.4fm) on the tuesday/wednesday (more details on this soon!).
		This was the photograph taken at the Phoenix Theatre in Leicester on March 27th.
		There was a good turn out at the SUMO in Leicester on the 28th of december with the venue being full to the brim with people.
	users.hanson.net /glowworm/news.html (2981 words)

	bbc radio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The reports stated that Clooney had said in a US radio interview that he found the pain "unbearable" and was considering self-harm before a series of...
		He was called to the churches in St Andrews seven years ago and has been a familiar voice on Thought for the Day on BBC Radio Scotland.
		Terry Preece, of Cardiff, told BBC Radio Five Live on Tuesday that he was among a group of holidaymakers now sleeping in the street in Cancun, Mexico.
	radio.acdom.com /bbc-radio.html (640 words)

	DerekAcorah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Such was his popularity that the telephone lines were jammed from the moment he went on air to the time the programme came to an end, and an announcement had to be made indicating that he had left the studio.
		He remains a guest on James' show for a number of weeks despite a minor hiccup when the Radio Authority decided they could not possibly have someone on air 'talking to the dead'.
		Derek has been invited to appear on many television and radio programmes and can frequently be seen championing the word of spirit throughout the country.
	www.derekacorah.co.uk /media.html (605 words)

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